Assistance program
VA Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces
$104.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs, Department of, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 64.034
- What it does
- To provide grants to eligible adaptive sports entities to plan, develop, manage, and implement programs to provide adaptive sports activities for Veterans and members of the Armed Forces with disabilities.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Non-Federal Government entity with significant experience in managing a large-scale adaptive sports program for persons with disabilities if those disabilities are those that many disabled veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces have. To demonstrate significant experience, all the key personnel identified in the adaptive sports grant application of the entity must have experience implementing the adaptive sports activities to be provided and have experience working with persons with disabilities that many disabled veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces to be served through the adaptive sports grant have. The experience must be for two continuous years immediately prior to the date of submission to VA of the grant application. When more than one entity would be engaged in the provision of the adaptive sport activities, the entity applying for the adaptive sports grant must provide documentation that verifies that through the partnership, it has the experience necessary to implement all of the adaptive sports activities proposed in the adaptive sports grant application.
- Authorized by
- Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, Section 703
- Program site
- http://www.va.gov/adaptivesports ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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